A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

puil Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words11.5 9.3 28.6 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences3718 19 0 0 0 0
Number of authors8 6 2

Occurrences of puil in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
The Puil O Tears on page 15
ears, till there wis a muckle puil aa rounaboot her, near on fow on page 16
shuin fand oot she wis in the puil o tears that she'd gret when on page 20
dae ye ken the wey oot o this puil? I'm secunnert o swimmin abou on page 21
Mous wis scutterin awa up the puil like the clappers, makin muck on page 22
Also on pages 23, 32, 44
11 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 167, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
Doon in Wasty's puil
1 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
n affcome o drawin on a wider puil o writers nor the wee smaw cu
1 matches

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
he heyfield, the orchart, the puil, the shaw. It wis like they h
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
werena ower lood. There wis a puil in the middle o the coortyair
is hingin ower the rail o the puil in the central coortyaird o t
en as it tummlet doon fae the puil unner the clint an fund hauf
3 matches

Sneddon, Alison Whit dae ye want “British vailues” tae mean?, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
in in a significantly lairger puil o siller, that is spent mair
1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 63 - Shelts, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Doric, prose
s socks. It collekit in a wee puil on the radio wifie”s carpet
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
back o the schule, the glaury puil was a sottar o kirned dubs, f
ush. East o the schule an the puil, the wids o Pitrasherty raise
y, skirtin the back o Rogie's puil far the littlins war still du
3 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Loch Skeen, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
freeth whan it hit the puil ablow an wheecht back as a sh
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
raucht tae the polar bear’s puil. Kevin’s flooers grew richt
tor flappit doon tae the mill puil, an makkin eese o the watter
bedd at the boddom o the puil in the loch aside the fir.. a
Angus an Waggitie ay caad the puil aside their haime The Kelpie
de their haime The Kelpie’s Puil. A fisherman aften
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